On Friday, October 28th, Evo Morales said that if government owned business cannot poorly performing and “putting in question the quality of the government administration” then they risk the possibility of privatization. Morales made these remarks while celebrating the opening of an artificial turf stadium in El Alto. “If the managers and workers of public [...]

On his birthday yesterday, President Evo Morales announced that he will spend at least 10.5 million bolivianos to build a presidential airport terminal in La Paz with its own hangars.  Morales said at an air force gathering, “I want to take this opportunity to inform about this project of a new presidential terminal and its [...]

The Six Federation of Coca growers of Cochabamba (of which Evo Morales is currently president) has declared a state of emergency after President Morales’ declaration that the Isiboro Securé national park was “inviolable.” Coca union vice-president Gualberto Bustamente said that the union will be deciding whether to begin blocking major highways to protest the stopping [...]

The Brazilian government is waiting for its Bolivian counterpart to find an alternative project to the Villa Tunari–San Ignacio de Moxos highway. That project, which would traverse the TIPNIS indigenous territory, was recently canceled after massive protests and a march on the capital that lasted 65 days. “From the standpoint of the Brazilian government, it [...]

Just 48 hours after the indigenous Amazonian marchers arrived in La Paz, President Morales has caved in to their central demand and announced that he will not build a highway through the TIPNIS (Indigenous Territory in the Isiboro Securé National Park). The marchers have been walking from their tribal villages in the Amazon for 67 [...]

Six hours after the conclusion of their giant welcome in Plaza San Francisco, 20 indigenous leaders who are protesting a proposed roadway connecting Cochabamba and Beni provinces were invited by the government to a dialog at the office of the Bolivian vice president. The proposal was rejected immediately by the protesters, who demanded that a [...]

Since mid-August, indigenous residents of the TIPNIS indigenous territory of north-central Bolivia have been involved in a face-off with Bolivian president Evo Morales. Indigenous leaders, who in the past could be counted on as staunch supporters of the president, have been protesting the government’s plans for a road that would link Cochabamba and Beni states, [...]

Norwegian mercenary ex-soldiers—and a journalist from Oslo—helped Stina Brendemo, 21, escape on August 9 from Cochabamba, according to a Norwegian newspaper. Brendemo is a young Norwegian woman who was sentenced in May 2008 to 13 years in jail for attempted trafficking of cocaine to Europe. Brendemo was conditionally released on bail in August after paying [...]

Initial electoral results reported show that null and invalid votes have won a landslide victory in yesterday’s election, garnering 60% of the popular vote, with actual votes for candidates a little less than 40%. President Morales had said that he hoped valid votes would surpass 70% of the totals but none the less said he [...]

Today Bolivians all over the country voted, for the first time in history, for judges. Despite a ban on campaigning, the Supreme Electoral Council admitted that illegal campaigning before the election was so rampant that they had no ability to control it. The new judges will serve six year terms and do not have to [...]